Some famous/not so famous golf quotes:
For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Michael Jordan
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I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx
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It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
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If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Lee Trevino
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Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
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If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
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Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods
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I still don’t get golf.
Lance Armstrong
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Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. Wells
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
Bob Hope
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The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham
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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
John Wooden
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. Milne
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan
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All I do is play music and golf – which one do you want me to give up?
Willie Nelson
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
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One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
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Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
Ben Hogan
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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
Dave Barry
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I’ll tell you what, I’ve been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it’s just part of the game.
Tiger Woods
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan
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I like trying to win. That’s what golf is all about.
Jack Nicklaus
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I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.
Sean Connery
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I’ve been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it’s that once you hit a few shots, you’ll become addicted.
Fred Durst
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Golf is a better game played downhill.
Jack Nicklaus
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
Jack Nicklaus
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The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
Phil Mickelson
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He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
Mickey Mantle
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
Sam Snead
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
Arnold Palmer
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I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer
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To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
P. G. Wodehouse
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The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
Bobby Jones
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The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it’s only a game.
Rory McIlroy
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If there’s a golf course in heaven, I hope it’s like Augusta National. I just don’t want an early tee time.
Gary Player
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